The Wingham Times, 1885-01-30, Page 8•
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Th N. i ,_ clod, though the purse she fumbled in eyes and an aqudine nose, ?wiry I Seeing now that she was almost lie I I did come akhg,feeling very etupla.
was very large, the cola she molted to Capoo, his wife ; a etall woman
1 I wet; email, for I. passed on and left her
. forty, with a hundsome, fair fame, it' derstaild what she 'sweet. Oil tho i search before we could reneh thet
off belied as he was deaf, 1 began to riii i ly glad thet there was all the trehi I, i
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sti si I g,a .
tit 1 Ver red, igar and a (mtl px4 Op -14104 sho palatal, alateet thei eierialige at thee other end, whe,ent
A bitter Deeeit her midoight, i
ilwa iee Qf th• men, but bearieg hothiug acroOlier wilder lip4 , Edward Capon,' the af.at onPosite ilterAwo .PaPera 'Were
the up-expross, panting through it Q'f' their replies or of the lond aeideA in their VD ; a slightir; built youth of I posted in is fine-aeoe, thd tuivertleie
to nesnieeee r, el4 at ilugby, wain, whith they. dalgod la to ceche ()thee, not more then ' fifteen or sixteen ' mot oof Small' leaelieon baskets Sup;
evict po.44ougu .4 just arramg atiair,4 .!•1 had taelied the (alter eni• of the! (though for • the Matter of thate T Plied at Alaa'llei Th ° othor tho 00Ole-
Hooves jis departing—what witni Ie' truotaud! Wag jitst malting July "Y! thought lie- had evident17 „conning pauy's direetienv fore sate inenii.g' the,
Weeds W444) klaine to see the last of the I,e,ek to, my owu vah, when the young enough for twin his age), ' with close guard and etopplog the traio in eabe of
aepartioa p,ssonors, or to wee. the lady wheel I had Wore noticed werit ly eat black hair, light gray eye; mid dengee, As they happened to he pate
arriving es—tfui „ a,,f.pai was fan slowly before ill() to the empty second- delicate features.' ed the large letters dal reed us she had
otiougb 1 oat, a4surtr, you,'ana, E had clese department oear %vhiet, 1 stood, We at knew this deseription well saal: ' •
oh
some ditlieelty in maiallg mYwaY fmn ' 4An) 1 riot fur Euston 7' she asked, . enough and far two clays had kept aur Small Imuelmoa Baskets. Pu , down
cerriaee to carriage, even the ugh I "lel gently, as she heeitated: at the eyes open, hoping to identify them the Cord.
generAly feud that people (alinot un- . among our passengers. But our While I was gazing from tier to the
door.
'All right,miss,' 'said, taking the scrutiny latetall been in vain ; and as bills, gat* over a bit of nit ..stun -
door from her, and standing while she the train ruelwd un, 1 felt how dis. iehment, mid she was giving me now
atoaseously, perhaps), move as •e for
up or down close tel the earriage doors, got ine 'Auy luggage '1' to,. from that appointed the police at Buseon a onld and then a sharp tonell on tho should -
the guard woeu they see hio walking
again withorit er to remind nni of my daty, and has
by momeat, 1 took her, in a Sort of a be when we errivecl
'This (Moray was increaeed, too, ten with her refeeslonents. we were
a way, into my charge, because elle was even tidings of them.
the maneuvers of lay companion,
Londodetective, whhad joined so thoroughly alone, you se; oat hav- I was soon tired of this subject, and 'joined by one et the directors who
to give Inmeelf a better opportunity ing nay friends there even t a see her went back to woriaing myself about I happened to he going up tio town by
n o me
of ex-uniaing the passengers.. Keenly en' , the sad looking, yellow -haired girl, the express. Bet his just, end natu, al
he clici it, too, in that seemingly care .Nc. aiggege. thank you,' sue ata h lie had so ovioently wished to travel %rah, lima as it: %vete, never roe% ed
swAered, putting herlitale leather satela alone, and been so successfully foiled the old. lady ---n a not in the slightest
Ills way of his nod, while he appeared degree. She never heard one woe(' of
el oown beside her on the seat, and in the attempt by that intrusive fop
to be o dy an itdle, lounging ttegemine
setting herself at the faitheet corner with tho hanehanue beard Foolishly it, wily mildly insisted in toe midst of
• tame of my own, I knew lat under ,
iron' the (lour, 'Do we stop anywhere I kept on thinking of her, limit, oe that she was almost tired of waiting
his un inspected scrutiny it was next between here and Lonclou l' we were dashing almost like Reletting for her luticheeu basket
pelting shout, OW
to impessible for the thieves he was
'Don't stop agem, miss, except fur a through 'the wind and darktiess only With a tierce
seeking to escape—even in hampers. tneterstand
,i.,,, few mon-leaks to take tickets. Then 1 fifteen or twenty miles from Chalk rector tried to make. her
1 didn't trouble myeelf to help i 1
''''' looked at her as much ) s to say, Berm the heel in my van rang out with that she lead incurred a penalty of live
ror it wasn't nedesaary ; yet 1 woe; as minds; but he coin In't, though he
•you're all rieht, because I'm the guard a sharp and !sudden summons, I P
oawled it at her until the olcl thing—
perhaps mortified at having tekon so
mach 'trouble for nothing—perhaps
overcome by her Wieser! -perhaps
frightpued by the eolamotion, she tnal,W,
though (How% hear—sank hack in leer
watt in a strong fit of hysterics, letting
the shillings mid sixpences roll oat of
her lap and settle down under the
seats.
it seemed to me n. long time below)
me started on again, but I suppose it
was only Sis: or seven minutes' delay,
MAW.'
anxious as hundreds of othere a ere here,' and shut tile door, never wondered for a moreeet who
that those practiced thieves, who the
1 suppose that, without exactly be- had pulled the cord ; instinctively 1
police had been hooting for the It t
'1avg aware of it, I sept a watch over knew, and—it was the carriage far -
levo deys, Sliqui4 be caught as they `Le. this carriage, fur 1 was perfeetly aware thest from my van, 1 iefl ! my place al7
aerveci,' of a lazy young gentleman who per- most breathlessly., as the (melee slack -
Sometimes we came upon a group sistently kept hovering areaud. it and oiled speed, and, hastening along . the
eehiell my =opinion crowed not. take louking in. His inquisitive eyes had foaboard, hesitated at no window una
it` at a gla'nee' and then be always of course caught sight of the pretty tile I reached the one from which I
found himself uhusnally eoll and stop. face in ' here alon:, and I could see- felt qurte!euee teat a frighteued face
Red to stamp a little life into hispetei.
that ha was making up his 'Iliad to would be looldng out My !heart lit.
• tied feet. Of course for me, this en-
join her ; hot he seemed doing it in a orally, beat in dread as Istopped and
fore td. standing was the. eignallior an meet careless and teneuidemumer. . looketaiuto the carriage. What did 1
attack of that Persistent questioning He was no geritlernat for that reason, see? Only the two passengers, buried
with which railway guards are &mil- after all. 1 expect I should have
1 said to my' aelf ; yet his dress was in their separate -Corpora. 'file young
i.ar; and in. attending to polite ques- waited to explem the stoppage, 'lathe
, bandeome. and the hand that played lady raised her head from the hook she
tioners who deserved answering, ante pretty young girl of whom 1 cousider-
with his long black heard was small held, mid looked up a0ene astonished
anpolite ones who insist( d on'it, I haded myseif a sort of protector ; but 0.4 I
and neatlygioved. Glancing Ail into —childishly and !,wondermely aston-
not much time for looking.around me; sant, she- was at the °mishit!) end of.
the far corner of that one first-class Wald.
but presently I di o cal'eh mYse",„ compartment the linen( a until , the 'Has anvthirig-.happened to the
watching Lepel who stood alone at
lest mouwnt had e the ; -thou, quitetrain he ?' sasked, timidly.
some dislanee—a girl very pretty ate", leisure] v, he waiked up to the &me* The gentleman i!oused himself from
pleasant tIrk look upon, I thougat, and entered it, and in all instant it was, a seemingly eonefortrole nap •
though herefaee and her dress and her
hanged behind him. 'Without the 'What on earGle • hes stopped us in
attire were sad; a tit14slight irl, i
„ Ili least hesitation I went up to the win- t is halal' fib stiet;tisiiig mid pushing.
deep mourning, with a ganuity o.
dem, and stood near it while the lamp his handsome face and long bear l pas.
-1-igl t fair hairplatted high upon her
%yes fitted Into its compartment. The sed me at the window.
head as well as •well as hanging I1" -ev
selgentleman was staudiug up within,
about her sheulders; and a childishly 9 it was only too evident that the al -
about on u long black overcoat ; arm had, not been given from this car
ienocent faee, with pretty bewildered
the young lady la the distant cornea -
eyes. She stood just at the do re oft looking riage; yet the feeling had been such a,
out from the wiudow an if
the booking office, ad I wished I could certainty to me that it was loug be -
even the half darknese -was! better to,
have went straight to her and put her look fore 1 Mt quite cunvineed to the eon.
look uon tuan this companion. Mei,
into one ----the most oomfortabl i—oll trary; mid 1 went edoeg the footboard: f ,r
thieline of carriages at which she gazed co the other carriaees. very much wore m.'
TM., was said to rue by Davis the
aided a good deal at the failure of my
scheme for bee comfort, I went on to slowly than 1 hacrgene first to that
so timid y. Just as I hesitated, 4 ur-I , van, beside which the detectivedetective,. whom 1 knew pretty well by
ver ramerkable figure- elbowed its one. Utter darkness susroerided us . now, havnig had a good dee' to do
waited for me. on all sides ; but from the lanap-ht ap :
%vita hint in reterence to this War -
way to me—a stout, grandly -dressed
old lady, pelting painfully, aud ahnost ,y ;_
' No go, you see,' he ;pottered oross- artmeuts eager heads were thrust Jut
LIDO* 41 s no
and yet it seemed to me so likely seaeching for the reason of thiswieltishi re triosel),Irry.
1 said, 'before we start -
Piercing. me with a pair of restless, 1
hulf-opened., eyes, . that lookoa out that they'd take this train' petted stoppage. No one owned to ed the train we. searched, as you may
' I don't see why it should. seem ',eying- summoned me, untiel readied see at Rugby.
through. the. gold-runmed spectacles Every passenger has
likely,' I answered, for I hadn't gone the secoied-c ass carriage near my owe -that were perched ou her pointed nose. uudergone a close scratmy, 1 Call tell
with hiin in the idea.. ' It- el tesn't van, which 1 had laisteued pissed be.
• Two porters folle sred her, laden with you, What causes sucu scientific
bexes, trunks, cloaks end flowers -411e seem to inc very likely that three such fore, where the fidgadye deaf old lady preparations for us here ?'
only flowerain the station, 1 eapect, skilfidl, thi :yes as you are dodging, who had amused Inc at Rum sat • 'A telegram received ten minutes
en thee cold winter nigiit—and „ V1110 did their work ia this neighbor- alone. 1 had. no need to look iu and ago,' he answered. 'It wenn; that two
of the men vinked at me over her nestsof the thieves weetre dodging are in
, hood so °levers two nights ago, should question her. Her head was quite out
leave the station any - night, by the of the -window, and though she lied her
"hie the other planted her treasures th.'s train in clever disguiees. We
with a face colicentrated anxiety, and !very train wbieh the police wateli with bac. to the light and I could .not see have had pretty full poetic:0in%. but
thoughts engrossedby possibleher faeeeher voice WAS cool enough to the discovery wasn't made untea. after
„„ double suspicion.'
fcl-i; ' Doesn't it 7' he echoed with most show that she was not overpowered by
'This, is the London traie, you left the junction. Have you no -
(sena ' she naked. peering sharplyi8 into satirical knowingness, -'.Perhaps you fear.
tica—here he. lowered his voice a lit -
ley face with bee half.c'oeed eyes, as if may nave got • vete clear in your mind 'What a. time you've been coating!' tlee--`a You're lady and gentleman to-
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PI' ,
she foun& it dillicm1 to distinguish bow they will leave the town, fur its she said;
gather in either caeriaixe ?'
sure enough that, they haven't left it ,ee; hors is it 7,
the train, and I was 111 haste now
There must have been a gond laugh
in several of the carriages when the
cause (Aunt. st !ppage was made known. -
•As for me, when I s. ut myself in again
I chuckled over it until we reaulied
Chalk Facm to take tlekets,
,
it seemed to 111 that the train was
taken iuto custody as soon as it stopped
here
'Of oourstryou have all tbse train
doers locked, and r11 go down. with
you while you open them one by ono.
My men are in possession of thea plat -
me evea, through her spectacles. Ifelt a bit of an odd catching in my.
I up to now. That they'll be in a big 'Where's what.'
FrGIT1 her whole attitude I guess& a.. burry . it .
t But though I yell the question with breath as he spoke.
to wave is sure enough too, her to be deaf, but I never guessed how
for this isn'r, the sort of place they'li
deaf until, after yelling so loud that
care to hide in longer than necessary.
the engine driver must have heard it.
eighteeo carriages off, she still remainWell, while's the hardest place foe as
-,
to track them in 'I London. And
ing stonily waiting for it.
what's thae. easiest place for thein to
'Deaf as a dozremo,:,
en! posts,' get to sea been ? London, Then natur.
the detective, aloud, giving the old
lady an expressly 3 nod hi the direction, to, go, Ise%
ally enough, to Loudon they'll want
this a his., train ? teed
of the train you choose a fast train if
'Slow train she asked, in that' 41341
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yeewe,re funning away,' from. the
plaintiye tone which thee 'eery police?
often use.
"Mail!" I shouted, putting myl ' I didret tell hirnalehat sort of a train
month as close to her ear as 1 fancied I should 011.00se, becauseI liaclult
she would like. Otte made up iny mind ; and he was
lookiog cross enough for anything, in
../‘ le 1' she shrieked back to me, the
nose. that last glimpse I caught of him,
spectacles shakinv on her thin
'Why should you want ale for listening Having 1 ()Whig better to de, I won -
to dell questions that they are paid to deeea et good del how Chase thieves
answer 1 Ale, indeed 1 I believe) rail- could arrange their pain r away,
w 111011 till rik of netl.iue while the walls-avere covered withe the
Then Sin' shook 110.r heard angrily, des ription ofithene and every office).
and waddled off, lookiug as acid an oh the line was • up in it. There was
old party as any one would ever (late no doubt lmat their being three very
io se ee In at every. door she peered dexterous knaves, but thenitr odetec-
throu eh tie glittering glasses, the tive force was very dextrous, though
two peters following her, until she they weren't knaves (and 1 do believe
stopped before an empty oecietal elass the greater dexterity is generally on
earriageneae my vim, awl, with much the knavil side),; and' 50.it was odd it wasthoPeleae), for she raised her
labor and assistante, got herself and that the watching still' evils ineffective voico to a high pitali of poevishnetm,
peelmees into it ' and the offered rewardonclithned, aud.pointed with one shoeing hand
all my might awl main, 1 believe I No.' I said, quito in a hurry ; no
might just as' hopefully questiimed smug lady and gentleman belonging
the telegraph post which I could dimly together ; but there may be plenty hi
see beside us, and have exp cted an the trein. Whet if they are, though 7
answer alone the wires. there was no young lady or gentibman
• 'Where's tlie small luncheon basket?' among the robber s ! '
she enapired, pulling onto her long Among the robbers,' rejoined Davis
purse in great haste—ea small hincle with suppressed enjoyment, was it
eon basket, my good man, and make woman who'd make letrselt into any -
haste. thing; and you must own that a gentle -
Shall I ever forget the sharp expec. man with a dark, long beard isiftibad
tency of the old lady's eyes as they for a lady known to us pretty well by
looked inte miue- airee over, then mo hes tick red hair and a out on her un -
dr; then clieough her gold rimmed der lip!
spectacles? Whatamprised me most ' But the young lady W 1 ashad,
Wets the fact of her decidedly 'not' be- cogitating this.
ing—as any one reight suppose, a ray. A ), the y mug lady 1 True enough;
ing lunatic. well, what shod you say now if 1
toll you she geow out of Meet , boy
'Be qpiek with the small him:he:en
baeltot, if you please 1' she sitidiresikt- ,we:mlea,fteri stili closely cut (104
edly sitting down; and pouriag the null 7
contenta of. her purse oat into her hip, 1 remeelered'the pretty plaits and
Tut asiffinvy ma into possibly be ' the loosely falliegthair I! remember -
1 sappreeethet when sem ieekoa ed the bewilderment ie theelyes whieh
ab entirely 1101 theinuttural express on
ine•froin the silver she was countime
she saw my oewildeement didn't and 1 didn't answer tl;ia at all,
try now to make lief. Ilea; for el know twish 1 had -a gold a eheeme Of'
the gielealann 1had, in a wny, taken
Wider My peoteetion,
W hit ail we to be allowed to leave
tills, titehterer2.00.11 inc a cab
tlie'dettfehld.viledyi !planed vely, ee
reached her merino, and found lieie
pain.; out in most evichmt and nave
iguoraoce of all that was going ort
meanie( her. 41 am locked in, gee'd—
do you hear
1 heard.—ay, Shop enough ;1 °illy
wished she 4:1(4n1d hear me t4S readily.
Dn. hi stool aside watching,. while
uelocked her door wed helped
down.. Then seeing her lie 1pies hoe
and her countless paekagete be beck -
Oiled a porton to her,. winking expreee
sively to 001 hi, attention to a prob
"IeCekirhriiiitigieugafter carriage t e texamilled
and, though Davie detectee iio thief,.
he turned away only more and, mow
hopeful from eacle He was so sure
they even, there, awl that escape was
impoesible. We reached the lust cat'-•
ridge ie the line—end 110W lily heart
beat in the oddest meneer possible.
"Is this compartment empty, then?"
asked DiLV is, while my fiugere were
actually shaking as 1 pet niy key intai
the door of the centre oue, empty and
vele if it had been empty, it
would have been left clerk," I mutter -
el, looking in. "Hallo 1 i!
come
to the lamp?'
might well ask what wasenme of
the 1a101), for the col partm en t was as
dark as if it never . had been lighted;
yet hail not 1 myseli stood nod watched
the Dighted lamp but in at lieugey?"
And the carriage was empty too, .
as this?' aeked the detetaiele
turning sharply upon me. 'Why was
not the lamp lighted?'
But the lamp was lighted, and boxii•
ing now as sensible as the others—if
we eoulei hat e seen it. As uo S000
disnoNered, the glass was covered bee
0. topulimintensely black and strong-
ly intheivii, and tile carriege was alt
completely dark as if nu lamp had been
there at all.
'They coulden't have lefe the train
here, at any rate,' he said; end I knew
that as well as he did.
Bat you have guessed the end'.,'
During those ft -4 minutes that we!
stopped on theline, the two thicyt,s—
iltruehing the 11111)1) even after I had
left them, and using their own
had left, the carriage wider cover of.
darknese; managing Oheir escape in
their black dresses, out into the dark•
ii.taeedsnolfoltlabgeadniethhteelars tic.leerst.eit•tliyidess utbhey
se.
(pent concea.inent. But how could
they have depended on the usnal debt,/
—this exquisite opportunity given
thein in the utter darkneis doseto
the city, yet at the station. Wben
officielly made niy depositian, and ex-
plained the absurd cause of our atop -
page, and the length of it, the truth
broke upset us all; aiid)it wasn't long
before it %vas settled into a certainty.
Clear enough it was to everybody,
then, that the old scoundrel had -dup•
ed us inter° ingeniously than the•
yaun0aer ones, As the incapable
lady (deaf as a stone, and so blind that.
she had to peer through her glittering
glasses lith bees always half closed:.
end so hungry t!kitt site hail to stop the
trniu for a luneliiton-basket, while thee
confederateseeseaped), he had played,
upon us the neatest, trick of all.
Wheremn earth were the thick Iron -
gray hair and whiskers by which we
were to identify him? But by the
time the policesthe- whole thing
clearly, it Was t ' e to follow up
any clew to him.
The cab which 1)116- the cceen•
trio old lady and • •le from
Friston was lost in • •'
nt be tracked. A...iiltr • elle:
offered for inform's" *
ever won it. My. •`,''
was no legitimately;
all, but rine beloreging.ti,
part of the finished fa • ;rei"
believe, two, thaervehneee
though perhepe ea.! •Ite•hother side., on
the channel—those ..an practiced
knaves enjoy a hearty! hie •over4that
December journey by the inghb ex-
preas.!
•
Itt Germ tny no one is allowed to
move about the theatre', leave or 0h
tor while the nusie is playing, and the
man who says he will, is te-nt, as if ea
pneumatic tube, to the nearest police
catching' the old fellow DA I have of statiela
catching the written and by,' continn- Out of 1,120 steam vessels, which
ed Davis, is we trov.A slowly past the sailed frem NOW Yak to Europe (lute
Init.:, pissi.a. a few in 1 iu I•et; af- read over again the handbill inmy van, to theava 1 o. the carriage, locked luggage -van. iteow they're int, 1884, carrying 42 He 790 bushels
of grain; there was hot a eingle one'
over which floated the Stars Ind
Stripes Of the 101 Vessel.,
eaetyiup t),-,431,993 bushels, jUrt'-
tA"
cisel y two of the bottoms -Wet -a Anted.-
ottm
vire/eels, elle was standieg the, vhich described the robbers, I Et.
deo 'Amy, e!Tectoally bareieg tie doer' wed Caren, alias Captain Winter,
to netv oth r hiy her own's:n-1011as Joeh Pearson, alias Dr. Orow ;
flthilttVe a1)0 nrft,ic!4 soon pm- thieloset, fictive roan, o middlo hewht,
Ion 4in ti 204 tho /I ex. end about fifty years einem with dna:
ety oe tee „:„,,.! lefaa, eren gaily hair ani whiskasol.ali gray y(nt to the inaa.ger„
'Look there! Doesen't it say 'Small here, and that I shall re.)ognize them)
Intaieliem baskets. down the under any disgniea; but we've no clew
cord ?' 1 want`a entail luncheon bate to the older! resent Tea most aggra
ket, be 1 pulled down thecord, Ilake, voting that•by some means, we've.' et,
haste. old get it for me or 111 vport ; sight of the biggest rept) of all. Como.
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